Ask the Mayor; Can Our Hospitals Handle This?; The Trump Organization, Taxes and Bribes; Should You Travel During the COVID-19 Epidemic?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 13, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Aaron E. Carroll, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School and regular contributor to The New York Times’s The Upshot, talks about how the biggest problem with COVID-19 is still ahead: our hospitals’ and health system’s inability to handle the surge of patients needing care.
- Andrea Bernstein, senior editor for politics and policy for WNYC News and co-host of the podcast Trump Inc. and the author of American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W. W. Norton & Company (January 2020), Katherine Sullivan, reporter and producer for Trump, Inc. and Heather Vogell, ProPublica reporter, talk about their new scoop that reveals the Trump Organization paid bribes to tax assessors (through middlemen) to lower its property tax bills in New York City in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
- Scott McCartney, author and creator of the weekly Middle Seat column on airlines and travel in The Wall Street Journal, talks about how COVID-19 is impacting the travel industry and offers advice on whether or not certain travelers should cancel their trips.
